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Along with the Space Tug and teleoperator systems came 'man-tended' satellites and a decision to add grapple fixtures to all major observatory/telescope bus structures for astronaut servicing, upgrading and/or repair - evidenced by the Solar Max and Hubble, both of which are superb examples of the concept.

Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009

Wired to control the environment whithout actually moving a limb, a teleoperator of their own surroundings, deprived of those exotic prostheses with wich the neighbourhood of the city was once rigged out, the inhabitant of the teletopical metacity can no longer clearly distinguish here from elsewhere, private from public.

Open Sky Artur 2008

Taking those first faltering steps with teleoperator robots and other prepartory devices is going to take some time….possibly more than the century that cybersage for galaxy-traversing technology.

A Month of Writers, Day Two: Charles Stross « Whatever 2007

Lester was assuming that the robot's teleoperator found "Old West lingo" as grating as I did.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

Sometimes they possessed the medical teleoperator that hung from the ceiling, made it dance and stab and steal slivers of flesh from Scanlon's body.

Starfish 1999

Kotov worked through the standard three-hour training course with the TORU teleoperator system, which provides a manual backup mode to the Progress 'KURS automated rendezvous radio system.

SpaceRef Top Stories 2010

A teleoperator without some guided motion couldn't do it. "

Wired Top Stories 2009

If we want to go panning the metaphorical rivers for gold, we’d do better to send teleoperator-controlled robots; it’s close enough that we can control them directly, and far enough away that the cost of transporting food and creature comforts for human explorers is astronomical.

A Month of Writers, Day Two: Charles Stross « Whatever 2007

If we want to go panning the metaphorical rivers for gold, we’d do better to send teleoperator-controlled robots; it’s close enough that we can control them directly, and far enough away that the cost of transporting food and creature comforts for human explorers is astronomical.

2007 December 02 « Whatever 2007

It was initially thought that the teleoperator might suffer from control overload, but this has not been the case. "

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010